YOU CAN STILL HAVE A THYROID ISSUE,

You might have a similar story to mine.

You’ve done your research 🧐 and are sure something is not quite right with your thyroid, but you’ve been told your thyroid is normal. You know something doesn't feel right, and you’re likely correct and you are certainly NOT crazy #gaslighting

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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) is the most commonly run marker for thyroid, but it rarely shows us the big picture.

☝️It is unlikely that you will be able to get a full thyroid panel unless you are referred to a specialist OR you pay out of pocket to see a Functional Medicine or Naturopathic doctor (which is what I did).

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A full blood🩸panel should include at lease the following as a base line:

✅Thyroglobulin AB

✅Thyroid peroxidase

✅T3

✅T4

✅Reverse T3

✅Reverse T4

✅TSH

Every cell in our body has a receptor site for T3, but not T4. T4 actually goes through a conversion process to T3. This is why having a full panel is so important. We need to know where the problem lies.

Some people may have a deficiency in Thyroxine Binding Globulin (TBG), a protein that binds thyroid hormones. If one is deficient in TBG, there can be associated low levels of TOTAL T4 and TOTAL T3, but normal to elevated levels of FREE T3

T4 hormones. ⁣

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So at first glance, the FREE T3 T4 numbers look great and without seeing the TOTAL T3 /T4 it would appear that everything is “FINE”.

BUT, when a full thyroid panel is done, one would then see the low levels of TOTAL T3 T4, and therefore KNOW that something is going on.⁣

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High FREE T3 T4 levels are available in the blood, BUT are likely not getting into the cells (there may be several reasons for this), causing us to feel an array of hypothyroid symptoms, even though the hormones "appear" to be normal.⁣

I hope this helps those in search of some answers.